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Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1851–1859, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 19,065 km² in 4 cessions across California.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Chap-pah-sim · Co-to-plan-e-nee · I-o-no-hum-ne · Sage-womnee · Su-ca-ah · We-chil-la · Cas-son · Cho-e-nem-nee

Royce 423, 1859Royce 275, 1851Royce 280, 1851Royce 281, 1851
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
275April 29, 1851 Cas-son; Cho-e-nem-nee; Cho-ki-men-a; Chook-cha-nee; Chow-chil-lie; How-ech-ee; I-tach-ee; Nook-choo; No-to-no-to; Pas-ke-sa; Pit-cat-chee; Po-ho-nee-chee; Tall-in-chee; Toom-na; Wa-cha-et; We-mal-che · with 12 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
280May 28, 1851 Chap-pah-sim; Co-to-plan-e-nee; I-o-no-hum-ne; Sage-womnee; Su-ca-ah; We-chil-la · with 7 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
281May 28, 1851 Chap-pah-sim; Co-to-plan-e-nee; I-o-no-hum-ne; Sage-womnee; Su-ca-ah; We-chil-la · with 7 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
423November 19, 1859 Chook-chan-cie; Chow-chilla; Poho-neche · with 11 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule

No trail in Project Homeland crosses these lands yet. A map that shows one, traced in, would add it.

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.